Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

In a typical PPI network, clients will submit their malware—a spambot or password-stealing Trojan, for example —to the service, which in turn charges per thousand successful installations, with the price depending on the requested geographic location of the desired victims. But on Dec.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

that is hosting various cybercrime products and services were being sold. store used by hackers to offer for sale thousands of compromised accounts, including gamer accounts and PII files containing user names, passwords, U.S. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” “Deer.io

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. ”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The crooks running the Trickbot botnet typically use these config files to pass new instructions to their fleet of infected PCs, such as the Internet address where hacked systems should download new updates to the malware. Holden said at the end of September Trickbot held passwords and financial data stolen from more than 2.7

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

According to Cybersecurity Ventures – cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 ! Cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 , up from $3 trillion in 2015. Ransomware, the fastest growing type of cybercrime, cost the world $11.5 The world needs to cyber protect 300 billion passwords this year.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. Gafgyt is a popular choice for launching large-scale DDoS attacks, it first appeared in the threat landscape in 2014. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The source code of the Zeus Trojan is available in the cybercrime underground since 2011 allowing crooks to develop their own release since. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom , was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Microsoft is warning of human-operated ransomware, this kind of attack against businesses is becoming popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. Human-operated ransomware is a technique usually employed in nation-state attacks that is becoming very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. ” continues Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The malware is able to steal sensitive information (a variety of credentials, including FTP credentials, stored email passwords, passwords stored in the browser, as well as a whole host of other credentials) . If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

FBI recommends using passphrases instead of complex passwords. Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem. Threat actors scan Internet for Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Lampion malware v2 February 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. Gafgyt is a popular choice for launching large-scale DDoS attacks, it first appeared in the threat landscape in 2014. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns of cyber attacks exploiting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and the DHS issued a joint alert to highlight the rise of RDP as an attack vector. The IC3 warns of the following vulnerabilities: Weak passwords.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

On August 2018, Schuchman has been indicted on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori that infected at least 500,000 internet routers around the word. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Among other malicious features, LuminosityLink allowed Grubbs’ customers to record the keys that victims pressed on their keyboards, surveil victims using their computers’ cameras and microphones, view and download the computers’ files, and steal names and passwords used to access websites.” ” reads the DoJ’s sentence.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Equinix, one of the world’s largest providers of colocation data centers and Internet connection announced it was hit by Netwalker Ransomware. The popular cybercrime gang is demanding a $4.5 Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

An attacker could also exploit the flaw to disable security features in the Netlogon authentication process and change a computer’s password on the domain controller’s Active Directory. Threat actors immediately started targeting the vulnerability in attacks in the wild, including Iranian APT groups and at least a Russian cybercrime gang.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Iron cybercrime group has been active since at least 2016, is known for the Iron ransomware but across the years it is built various strain of malware, including backdoors, cryptocurrency miners, and ransomware to target both mobile and desktop systems. “In Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

All the affected organizations had hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials. It was revealed that the operators scanned ranges of IPs for hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials in Russia , Japan , China , and India. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

“According to court documents, Christopher Brannan, 31, a former teacher at Lee-Davis High School, intentionally accessed without authorization internet and email accounts, including Apple iCloud, Yahoo!, Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reported the DoJ. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

On August 2018, Schuchman has been indicted on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori that infected at least 500,000 internet routers around the word. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” the DoJ concludes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

. “At the same time, we brought in information technology consultants to review the security and stability of our system, change all passwords, and verify the integrity of our databases and other pertinent information.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” Stec added.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Password Checkup Chrome extension warns users about compromised logins. Russia is going to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Hackers aim at collecting login credentials for networks of the target organizations, then they attempt to monetize their efforts by selling access to corporate resources in the cybercrime underground. The internet is a public resource; only post information you are comfortable with anyone seeing. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2018

US-CERT warns of cyber attacks on Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions such as Oracle and SAP, both nation-state actors and cybercrime syndicates are carrying out hacking campaign against these systems. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. “ “Digital Shadows Ltd.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The crypto-miner set up a secret master password that uses to access any user account on the system. A case in point: the way Skidmap can also set up a secret master password that gives it access to any user account in the system.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

“For example, the archive mentioned above contains an executable file, which has the same name and is a password-protected self-extracting archive. The winspool.drv decrypts the attackers’ configuration files, including software settings and the password for remotely controlling the target machine. states the researchers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

On December 20, the two hackers modified DNS settings in the G Suite portal of EtherDelta and redirected Gmail traffic through a server under their control allowing them to reset the password on EtherDelta’s Cloudflare account. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For example, the startup Proteus Digital Health back in 2014 created sensor-enabled pharmaceuticals that received hundreds of millions of dollars in investments. For the user, this means that if the wearable device is openly connected to the internet, then attackers can easily intercept the data it sends.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Sniffer plug-in – injects malicious scripts into a victim’s browser, usually while visiting internet banking sites. Stealer plug-in – harvests passwords from a wide variety of applications (browsers, FTP clients, VPN clients, chat and email programs, poker programs etc.). TOR plug-in – installs a TOR proxy and enables access to .onion

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Users’ logins and passwords from the Government Technology Agency ( [link] [.] Another Trojan-stealer — AZORult, aside from stealing passwords from popular browsers, is capable of stealing crypto wallets data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. gov.sg/ ), Ministry of Health ( [link] [.]

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Imagine connecting to an airport’s Wi-Fi network where you saw two options with similar names and even passwords. Another very brutal attack is the interception of users’ internet data when they are on these unsecured public Wi-Fi hotspots. The internet data transmitted on these networks is not encrypted. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2018

In June 2018 we have spotted a strange database publicly exposed to the public internet (no password/login required) along with a large number of credit card numbers and personal information inside.” Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 0.99 – $99.99 Clash Royale. 100 000 000+.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. Investigators would later determine that a variant of the malware used in the Target breach was used in 2014 to steal 56 million payment cards from Home Depot customers. Chang’s. At the time, Ika also was the administrator of Pustota[.]pw

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